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  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Ever Have A Crush On A Cartoon Character?

    ​I asked that question once before and the responses were so fervent that I had to retire to my plushie for some comfort before finally getting up the nerve to return to the human world again. But I'm back and ready to ask it one more time. Ever fall in love with an animated figure?

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    George Kuchar 1942-2011

    ​George Kuchar, the Bronx-raised filmmaker who began his career, along with twin brother Mike, at age 12, died this week in San Francisco after a long battle with prostate cancer. Beginning with The Wet Destruction of the Atlantic Empire (1954) and continuing through The Naked and the Nude (1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Will You Adopt The Thor Look?

    ​This Friday, director Kenneth Branagh improbably meets Marvel comics when the big budget adventure Thor opens, bringing armour--and amour--down to earth from the realm of Asgard. I saw the flick last night in 3D--or actually in the West 30s--and star Chris Hemsworth turns out to be one of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Jessie J Sings For Her Life On "Who You Are"

    ​All the world's a stage, and singer-songwriter Jessie J's corner of it looks something like American Idol (or maybe X Factor, since she's a Brit). The 23-year-old's debut, Who You Are, is not so much an album as it is a pleading, 50-minute audition, the logical byproduct of someone who doesn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    The Cockettes Conquer New York

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 47 History of a hype: Worm in Big Apple By Maureen Orth New York is dead, everyone complained. The last thing to hit town was "Jesus Christ Superstar," and it was so unbelievably crass. The major art op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    The Backstreet Boys vs. The Vivian Girls: An Intellectual Summit

    ​The Vivian Girls. The Backstreet Boys. Both bands are on tour this summer; both have a penchant for wobbly harmony; both have experienced relatively recent line-up changes. For some, these coincidences wouldn't register, but for savvy Paper Magazine editor (and former Voice cohort) Elizabeth ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2009
  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Pulp Fictions: The Best of 2008

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    Hoppity Goes to Town

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    Hoppity Goes to Town

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    Hoppity Goes to Town

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Film

    December 24, 2008

    Hoppity Goes to Town Screening at Film Forum

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Pulp Fictions: Sita Sings the Blues at MoMA

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    Pulp Fictions: Kim Deitch's 'Deitch's Pictorama'

    Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. It was the best of times, it was the...no, it was nowhere near the best of times, as the politically and socially turbulent pages of Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For attest. It was a fine year for comics, how ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 29, 2008

    OMG, Meet Legally Blonde's Bailey Hanks!

    Riding the Elle train with the perky Broadway star; tall tales from Philippe Petit

  • Film

    July 16, 2008

    Lou Reed's Berlin is All New York

    Julian Schnabel captures the music, moment, and mood of Reed's once-maligned record

  • Film

    December 18, 2007

    Holiday Lights

    Plus cartoons at MOMI and Fosse at the Walter Reade

  • People

    November 13, 2007

    That New-Car Smell

    Selling autos the same way on both sides of the border

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    Live: !!! at Studio B, 05.30.07

    Selling autos the same way on both sides of the border

  • NYC Life

    May 22, 2007

    Winehouse Rules

    Amy channels Ronnie Spector's high hair and Cleopatra eyes

  • Books

    August 15, 2006

    Alan Moore's Girls Gone Wilde

    Watchmen creator's decades-in-the-making (porno)graphic opus sees release

  • Film

    June 20, 2006

    Myths American

    Bryan Singer resurrects Superman, while Meryl Streep sinks her teeth into the fashion world

  • Books

    March 14, 2006

    All Aboard Berman's Cubist Panopticon Times Square Tour

    Bryan Singer resurrects Superman, while Meryl Streep sinks her teeth into the fashion world

  • Film

    February 28, 2006

    Paradise Now

    The heart of The New World: Feverish fans turn a box office bust into a cult film

  • Film

    December 20, 2005

    Film

    The heart of The New World: Feverish fans turn a box office bust into a cult film

  • Music

    October 25, 2005

    Selves Kept Alive

    No night at the opera; bodies aching all the time

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Notes on Girl Power

    The Selling of Softcore Feminism

  • NYC Life

    June 21, 2005

    Rhinestone Pigs Leave the Building

    The Selling of Softcore Feminism

  • NYC Life

    March 22, 2005

    NY Mirror

    The Selling of Softcore Feminism

  • Art

    October 19, 2004

    Remote Patrol

    The Selling of Softcore Feminism

  • NYC Life

    October 19, 2004

    October Disguise

    Sexist fun at the Halloween store

  • Columns

    September 28, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Sexist fun at the Halloween store

  • Columns

    September 14, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Sexist fun at the Halloween store

  • News

    November 11, 2003

    Welcome to Lee Breuer's Dollhouse

    Lee Breuer Goes Little—and Literal—With His Production of Ibsen's Classic

  • Books

    December 17, 2002

    American Rhapsody

    Lee Breuer Goes Little—and Literal—With His Production of Ibsen's Classic

  • People

    December 3, 2002

    Return of the Hose Beast!

    Lee Breuer Goes Little—and Literal—With His Production of Ibsen's Classic

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    Cat O' Many Tales

    Kim Deitch Gets Animated

  • Columns

    June 18, 2002

    NY Mirror

    Kim Deitch Gets Animated

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Jazz

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

  • Music

    April 4, 2000

    Bearfoot in the Head

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

  • Film

    February 29, 2000

    Into the Void

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

  • Theater

    June 15, 1999

    Dane’s Addiction

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

  • Film

    February 2, 1999

    All This Jazz

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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